Le Plaisir, la Peur et le Triomphe

Before us, there were the images of an animal drawn on the walls of a cave, of a man nailed to a cross, of bodies mowed down by war, of shorn women, of a human walking on the moon... Photography had already turned our way of seeing the world upside down. Today, the 21st century marks a new rupture: images circulate without limit, continuously broadcast on our screens.
Those of a child stranded on a beach, of shores devastated by a giant wave, of a bear lost on a melting ice floe. Joaquim Fossi, born in this century where visibility takes precedence over meaning, attempts to regain control of the gaze and attention. He stops at some of these images to look at them differently and reinvent our relationship with them. Restoring our imaginations and giving back to images their power to open up a common, sensitive horizon: this is the ambition of this young actor, director and author, trained at Lille's École du Nord and winner of the Prémisses* program. Alone on stage, in front of projected images, he explores the ambivalence of a world where pleasure, fear and triumph mingle.